SALT LAKE CITY — In what appears to be the most invasive violation of constitutional rights in several years, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox signed House Bill (HB) 72 into law mandating that every cell phone and tablet sold in the state must have preinstalled porn filtering software. The...

LAS VEGAS — Adult industry news organizations lit up when legendary Welsh adult actress Sophie Dee announced that she has minted the “Virtual Girlfriend Token” (VGT) as her inaugural entry into the ever growingly popular NFT marketplace and blockchain product innovation....

WASHINGTON — Congress is developing several proposals to overhaul technology platform liability shields outlined under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996. Sens. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, and John Thune, R-South Dakota, reintroduced the Platform Accountability and...

NEW YORK CITY — Mayor Bill De Blasio announced on Tuesday that his administration would look into the efforts to decriminalize consensual sex work. If he is successful, New York would be the largest U.S. city to implement evidence-based policies meant to protect legitimate sex...

SALT LAKE CITY — Utah’s state legislature ended its annual session, recently. YNOT has covered, extensively, the evolution of House Bill (HB) 72 — a proposal that would mandate every single mobile phone and tablet sold in Utah to come preinstalled with porn filtering software as...

Republican state lawmakers are working overtime to strip away the immunity shield most technology companies are entitled to. According to federal law, this liability shield is granted to web platforms through Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. Currently, there are...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — A gentlemen’s club sued the Small Business Administration (SBA) in a federal district court in the Western District of New York. The club, Pharaohs GC Inc., was forced to shut down in March of 2020 due to stay-at-home orders brought on by the COVID-19...

LOS ANGELES — Critically acclaimed adult actress Alexis Texas is reportedly at the middle of an ongoing investigation into criminal violations of child protection laws in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Yeah, that Iran.  The starlet appears fully clothed after making a cameo in a...

SALT LAKE CITY — A controversial legislative proposal that would require new mobile phones and tablets sold in Utah to come with preinstalled pornography filtering software to ostensibly protect children from potentially lewd content. YNOT previously reported that State Rep....

WASHINGTON — A large coalition of social scientists have issued a letter to President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris asking the administration to support evidence-based sex work policies like decriminalization. The coalition, Scientists for Sex Worker Rights, released...